--- 1/draft-ietf-idr-best-external-01.txt 2010-08-08 10:12:13.000000000 +0200 +++ 2/draft-ietf-idr-best-external-02.txt 2010-08-08 10:12:13.000000000 +0200 @@ -1,20 +1,20 @@ Network Working Group P. Marques Internet-Draft R. Fernando Intended status: Standards Track E. Chen -Expires: August 8, 2010 P. Mohapatra +Expires: February 8, 2011 P. Mohapatra Cisco Systems - February 4, 2010 + August 7, 2010 Advertisement of the best external route in BGP - draft-ietf-idr-best-external-01.txt + draft-ietf-idr-best-external-02.txt Abstract The base BGP specifications prevent a BGP speaker from advertising any route that is not the best route for a BGP destination. This document specifies a modification of this rule. Routes are divided into two categories, "external" and "internal". A specification is provided for choosing a "best external route" (for a particular value of the Network Layer Reachability Information). A BGP speaker is then allowed to advertise its "best external route" to its internal @@ -40,21 +40,21 @@ and may be updated, replaced, or obsoleted by other documents at any time. It is inappropriate to use Internet-Drafts as reference material or to cite them other than as "work in progress." The list of current Internet-Drafts can be accessed at http://www.ietf.org/ietf/1id-abstracts.txt. The list of Internet-Draft Shadow Directories can be accessed at http://www.ietf.org/shadow.html. - This Internet-Draft will expire on August 8, 2010. + This Internet-Draft will expire on February 8, 2011. Copyright Notice Copyright (c) 2010 IETF Trust and the persons identified as the document authors. All rights reserved. This document is subject to BCP 78 and the IETF Trust's Legal Provisions Relating to IETF Documents (http://trustee.ietf.org/license-info) in effect on the date of publication of this document. Please review these documents @@ -71,34 +71,34 @@ modifications of such material outside the IETF Standards Process. Without obtaining an adequate license from the person(s) controlling the copyright in such materials, this document may not be modified outside the IETF Standards Process, and derivative works of it may not be created outside the IETF Standards Process, except to format it for publication as an RFC or to translate it into languages other than English. Table of Contents - 1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 - 1.1. Requirements Language . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 - 2. Algorithm for selection of best external route . . . . . . . . 4 - 3. Advertisement Rules . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 - 4. Consistency between routing and forwarding . . . . . . . . . . 5 - 5. Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 - 5.1. Fast Connectivity Restoration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 - 5.2. Inter-Domain Churn Reduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 - 5.3. Reducing Persistent IBGP oscillation . . . . . . . . . . . 8 - 6. Acknowledgments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 - 7. IANA Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 - 8. Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 - 9. Normative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 - Authors' Addresses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 + 1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 + 1.1. Requirements Language . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 + 2. Algorithm for selection of best external route . . . . . . . . 5 + 3. Advertisement Rules . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 + 4. Consistency between routing and forwarding . . . . . . . . . . 6 + 5. Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 + 5.1. Fast Connectivity Restoration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 + 5.2. Inter-Domain Churn Reduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 + 5.3. Reducing Persistent IBGP oscillation . . . . . . . . . . . 9 + 6. Acknowledgments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 + 7. IANA Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 + 8. Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 + 9. Normative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 + Authors' Addresses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 1. Introduction The base BGP specifications prevent a BGP speaker from advertising any route that is not the best route for a BGP destination. This document specifies a modification of this rule. Routes are divided into two categories, "external" and "internal". A specification is provided for choosing a "best external route" (for a particular value of the Network Layer Reachability Information). A BGP speaker is then allowed to advertise its "best external route" to its internal